Texas executes student's killer despite protest from Mexico

HUNTSVILLE A convicted killer whose supporters included the Mexican government and a host of other international leaders was executed Thursday.

Miguel Flores, 31, thanked his family and attorneys for their faith as he was strapped to a gurney to await the lethal injection.

He turned his head, looked at the parents of his victim and apologized to them. He told them he had said a prayer for them to find peace.

Gerald Tyson, father of victim Angela Tyson, shook his head. After Flores was pronounced dead, Tyson and his wife, Minnie, said they would not forgive Flores.

"He took away too much," Gerald Tyson said.

Flores was convicted and sentenced to death by a Collin County jury in September 1990 for the rape and fatal stabbing of Angela Tyson, an Eastern New Mexico University student who was working in a Borger video store for the summer.

Flores nodded to a warden to begin the lethal flow. "God is waiting for me," he said. "God is waiting now."

Flores' attorneys have argued that, at least in part because Borger authorities didn't notify the Mexican consulate of his arrest in 1989, his trial was unfair.